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Frost interviews ex-US President Nixon

More than 45 million Americans turned on their televisions with bated breath on the evening of 4 May 1977, waiting to see disgraced former US President Richard Nixon interviewed by English journalist David Frost. Across four 90-minute episodes broadcast that month, the titanic interview covered Nixon’s five-year presidency, the Vietnam War and his personal life. But there was only one topic everyone was really watching for. They wanted to hear Nixon’s thoughts on the political scandal that had caused his

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